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...statement by J. N. Barde admitting part of them. But that non-Californian resident refused to attend the trial, and the defense produced a statement by him that the Fleishhacker deal was in entire good faith. Balance of the defense, presided over by famed & fast-thinking Lawyer John Francis Neylan, longtime Hearst adviser, was based principally on the claim that Herbert Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period on the stand, Banker Fleishhacker...
After four days of testimony the case went to Judge St. Sure who seemed to think the case more serious than Attorney Neylan pretended it was, for he announced that his decision would not be handed down in less than a month. As the courtroom emptied and Herbert Fleishhacker chased after Jack Neylan to find out what he thought the judge would decide, husky young Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford footballer and now manager of an Anglo branch, snorted: ''I want to meet that Frenchman!" When his brother Alan dissuaded him, he pleaded: "Father wouldn't have done...
...Magazines. Supposedly the Hearst enterprises are being put through a stiff course of corporate simplification. When the proposed financing is completed all Hearst magazines will be lumped in one package, Hearst Magazines Inc. What may look like simplicity to Mr. Hearst and his chief legal lieutenant, John Francis Neylan, would still look complex to the layman. But in the case of Hearst Magazines one thing is crystal clear: Mr. Hearst needs cash...
...three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst's able, orotund, Red-baiting Atorney John Francis ("Jack") Neylan. Also homored with Litt.D's were Novelists Margaret Ayer Barnes and Thomas Sigismund Stribling...
...method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from...